Turkish Bombers

[InvisibleDuncan]

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First off. The US did not fund the IRA. Just as there were sympathizers within the UK for the IRA there were also sympathizers within the US. This doesn’t mean the UK funded terrorism against itself; it means that some in the UK supported the IRA cause. Please in the future refrain from saying the US funded the IRA. Please state correctly that some inside the US supported the IRA cause (just as other individuals in other countries supported the IRA). I can remember that US government shut down supposed “charities” that were linked to the IRA to cut off funding to that terrorist group.

The US Government did indeed shut down some of the IRA's fundraising activities in America, although this was, of course, post-September 11th. However, there are still several IRA fund-raising groups that still operate with impunity: NORAID, Irish Northern Aid, Friends of the IRA, for example. Naturally, they now claim that their fundraising doesn't pay for terrorist attacks, but their tag-line when rattling their collecting tins in bars ("Every dollar helps to kill a British soldier") rather gives the lie to that. I love the way some of it happens, too - the Irish Freedom Committee, for example, hold fun-runs and dinner dances! And this is an organisation that openly admits that they support dissident republicans who oppose the move away from an "armed struggle" in Northern Ireland!

On a happier note, though, the IRA's most vocal supporter in the US Government seems to have changed his mind: Peter King sees which way the wind's blowing.